In comments yesterday, heckblazer alerted me to this brilliance of 1865 advertising. That is now one of my favorite advertisements of all time. Can't wait to use it in a class.
Author: Erik Loomis
It's long been known that better working conditions and higher pay lead to happier and more productive workers. Yet short-sighted greed and corporate resentment over treating workers like human beings.
The wages of the U.S. immigration system: Six months after he was deported back to Mexico from the United States, Constantino Morales was shot and killed Sunday night. Morales, an.
Above: Lincoln's funeral Ari Kelman and Jonathan Fetter-Vorm excerpt their new graphic novel on the Civil War. You should read it.
Dead at the age of 74.
Is Hillary Clinton the horrible monster Doug Henwood describes who is terrible on many, many issues the left should care about? Is Hillary Clinton a corporate hack who will avoid.
The bull trout, an endangered trout species of the Pacific Northwest and southwest Canada, in part because of introduced brook trout. The cost of trout fishing upon our river ecosystems is high. That's because we've industrialized the trout, like we've industrialized so many animals. Twenty-eight...
On this, the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, it's worth considering which Confederates should have been hanged. Understanding that the Union couldn't really execute all the high ranking Confederates, Gary Brecher.
It sucks to be a department chair and have to hire adjuncts in a situation you know and they know is exploitative. As a department chair at Columbia University, I.
I have a piece up at In These Times that discusses some of the ideas I develop in Out of Sight in how to hold corporations accountable for the ecological and labor exploitation of the world no matter where they move. The only way workers...
I'm ramping up promotion for Out of Sight. I created a Facebook page for the book. If any of you use it and want more information about both my media.
It's about time. A bill by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez to give employee rights and benefits to professional sports cheerleaders passed its first committee in Sacramento this week. Gonzalez, a former.